LibreOffice-Suite-Draw/C2/Fill-objects-with-color/English-timed

Time	Narration
00:00	Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on Fill Objects with Color in LibreOffice Draw.
00:06	In this tutorial, you will learn how to:
00:09	* Fill objects with color, gradients, hatching and bitmaps
00:15	* Set page backgrounds
00:17	* Create new colors.
00:20	Let us begin by opening the file 'WaterCycle'.
00:24	You can fill objects with:
00:25	* Colors
00:26	* Gradients
00:29	* Line patterns or hatching and
00:32	* Pictures.
00:33	Here, we are using: Ubuntu Linux version 10.04 and LibreOffice Suite version 3.3.4.
00:42	Let us color the 'WaterCycle' diagram.
00:46	Let’s begin by coloring the two clouds next to the sun. We shall fill them with white.
00:54	Select the cloud next to the sun.
00:56	Right-click to view the context menu and click Area.
01:01	The “Area” dialog-box is displayed.
01:05	Click the Area tab and under the Fill option, select Color.
01:13	Scroll down and click on white.
01:16	Click OK. <Pause>
01:19	In the same way, we will colour the other cloud too.
01:24	Right-click under Area, Color and White.
01:30	Coloring each cloud will take a long time.
01:33	An easier way to do this is to group them.
01:38	Let’s color the other two clouds, in “gray” as they are rain-bearing clouds.
01:46	First let’s group them.
01:48	Press the Shift key and click the first cloud and then click on the second.
01:54	Right-click for the context menu and click Group.
01:58	The clouds are grouped.
02:00	Again, right-click for the context menu and click Area.
02:07	In the “Area” dialog-box, click the Area tab. Under the Fill option, select Color and scroll down and click on the colour “Gray 70%”.
02:23	Click OK. <Pause>
02:25	Let’s color the triangle “brown 3” in the same way.
02:37	Now, let’s color the rectangle in “brown 4” in the same way, again.
02:48	Similarly, let's colour the sun yellow.
02:58	Next, let’s color the other triangle and curve that represent water with the colour “turquoise 1”.
03:05	As they require the same formatting, let’s group them if they are not already grouped.
03:12	To color them, let’s follow the same steps as in the previous ones - right-click, Area, Area tab, Fill, color, turquoise 1.
03:27	Observe that in the object “water”, the outlines of the triangle and the curve are displayed.
03:35	Let’s make these outlines invisible so that the picture looks better.
03:41	Select the object, right-click to view the context menu and click Line.
03:48	The “Line” dialog-box is displayed.
03:52	Click the Line tab .
03:55	In Line properties, click on the Style drop-down box and select Invisible.
04:03	Click OK.
04:05	The outline of water object becomes invisible.
04:09	Now, let us color the trees.
04:14	Let us select the left-most tree.
04:16	Right-click to view the context menu and click on Enter Group.
04:23	Now, let’s edit the tree.
04:26	Select the leaves on the right.
04:30	Right-click for the context menu and click Area.
04:36	In the “Area” dialog-box,
04:38	click the Area tab.
04:40	Under Fill, select Color.
04:44	Scroll down and click on “Green 5”.
04:47	Click OK.
04:49	Let us do the same for the leaves on the left.
04:57	Let’s color the trunk of the tree next.
05:05	Select the Y-shaped arrow, right-click for the context menu and click Area.
05:08	Notice that all the selection are retained in the "Area" dialog box.
05:15	So let's select “Color”.
05:18	Scroll down and click on “Brown 1”.
05:21	Click OK.
05:23	We have colored the tree!
05:26	To exit the group, right-click and select “Exit Group”.
05:31	We can color the other trees in the same way.
05:36	We can also delete the other trees, copy paste the colored tree and move it to the desired location.
05:44	It is much easier this way, isn’t it?
05:49	Now let us add a "shadow" to the cloud next to the "Sun".
05:55	Let’s click Select from the Drawing toolbar to select and then group them.
06:03	Select the white cloud group and right-click for the context menu and click “Area”.
06:10	In the “Area” dialog box, click the “Shadow” tab.
06:15	In Properties, check the Use Shadow box.
06:20	The other fields now become active.
06:24	In “Position”, click the bottom-right corner option.
06:29	“Position” defines where the shadow will appear.
06:33	In the Color field, select Gray.
06;36	Click OK.
06:39	A shadow is displayed behind each white cloud.
06:44	Now let’s make the clouds look more realistic.
06:48	Select the gray cloud group and right-click to view the context menu and select “Area”.
06:55	In the “Area” dialog box, select “Area” tab. Under “Fill”, click “Gradient”.
07:02	Now select Gradient1.
07:04	Click OK.
07:06	The cloud now has a more realistic shade of gray!
07:11 .	Select a shape - say a cloud group. Right-click for the context menu and click " Area".
07:19	The Area tab options are visible.
07:23	Under Fill, you will see the 4 options -
07:27	Colors, Gradient, Hatching and Bitmap.
07:32	Notice that there is a corresponding tab in the dialog box for each of these options.
07:39	These tabs allow us to create and save new styles.
07:43	Let’s click on the Colors tab.
07:46	Under Properties, let’s select Red 3 from the Color drop-down.
07:53	Then, select RGB and enter the values for R, G and B as shown.
08:01	R,G and B stands for the proportion of red, green and blue in any color.
08:08	We will enter 200 for R, 100 for G and 50 for B.
08:16	Here we are changing the proportion of red, green and blue to change the color.
08:22	Look at the preview box above the RGB field.
08:28	The first preview box displays the original color.
08:31	The second preview box next to the Color field shows the changes that we made.
08:37	Let’s type a name for this in the Name field.
08:41	Let’s enter the name “New red”.
08:44	Click on the Add button.
08:46	The new color is added to the list.
08:49	Click OK.
08:51	We have created a new color!
08:54	Let’s undo this action by pressing Ctrl and Z.
08:59	The colour of the cloud reverts to white, again.
09:03	You can create your own gradients and hatching too, using the tabs in the Area dialog-box.
09:10	Gradients are shades that blend from one color to the other.
09:14	For example, the color shade moves from blue to green.
09:18	Hatching is a shading or texture in drawing that is created using fine parallel lines.
09:24	Now, let’s learn how to import a bitmap into Draw.
09:28	From the Main menu, select Format and click Area.
09:33	As seen earlier the Area dialog-box opens, click on the Bitmaps tab.
09:39	Now click on the Import button.
09:42	The Import dialog-box appears.
09:45	Browse and select a bitmap.
09:48	Click on the Open button.
09:50	Draw prompts you to enter a name for the Bitmap.
09:55	Let’s enter the name “NewBitmap”.
09:58	Click OK.
10:00	The Bitmap now appears in the drop-down list.
10:04	Click OK to exit.
10:07	Observe the clouds now.
10:10	Let’s undo this by pressing Ctrl and Z keys.
10:14	Let us use bitmaps to fill the object “water”.
10:19	Now let us make the water look more realistic.
10:22	To do this, select the grouped triangle and curve.
10:26	Right-click for the context menu and select Area.
10:31	In the “Area” dialog-box, click the Bitmaps tab.
10:36	Scroll down the list of bitmaps and select Water.
10:41	Click OK.
10:43	The water looks more realistic now!
10:46	Pause this tutorial and do this assignment.
10:50	Draw objects and fill them with color, gradients, hatching and bitmaps.
10:57	Use the Transparency tab and see its effects on the objects.
11:02	Let’s color the sky now. This is simple!
11:06	We just apply a background to the whole page.
11:10	Click the cursor on the page to ensure no objects are selected.
11:15	Right-click for the context menu.
11:21	The Page setup dialog-box is displayed.
11:25	Click the Background tab and under Fill, select Color.
11:30	Let’s scroll down and select the color “Blue 8”.
11:34	Click OK.
11:36	Draw asks you if this background setting should be for all pages.
11:41	Click NO.
11:44	Now only the selected page has a background color.
11:48	You can also choose not to fill the object with colors.
11:52	Let us select the mountain.
11:55	Right-click for the context menu and select Area.
11:59	In the “Area” dialog-box, select the Area tab.
12:04	Under Fill, select None.
12:06	Click OK.
12:08	The object is not filled with any color and only the outline is seen against the background.
12:15	To undo the action, press Ctrl+Z keys.
12:20	You can also access all these options from the Format menu.
12:25	Remember to save your file by pressing Ctrl+S keys together, every time you make a change.
12:34	Alternately, set the Automatic Save option so that the changes are saved automatically.
12:41	Here is another assignment for you.
12:43	Color this picture you created.
12:45	Give a background to the page.
12:47	Create some new colors.
12:50	This brings us to the end of this tutorial on LibreOffice Draw.
12:54	In this tutorial, we have learnt how to use color, gradients, hatching and bitmaps to:
13:01	* Fill objects
13:03	* Create backgrounds and
13:05	* Create new styles.
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